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When reviewing PRs, I would always ask about TODOs: How will this TODO get to TO DONE?

I've experimented with a two-crew type system before (Red Team for feature development, Blue Team for stability and bug fixes). Rather than treating these as fixed teams, we treate…

This sounds like flash all over again.

Feels more and more like we're entering a post-"disruption" era.

Here we go again. The golden rule I've come to realise is that people don't like what they don't understand. It's made very clear this person doesn't like methodologies. I don't ge…

Nothing should redirect ever. However, it happens.

I don’t think this is exactly what it means, but I recommend if you want some quiet in a busy city, go into a library or a book store. Typically they are quiet and calm places, off…

No doubt now archived forever and available in ChatGPT.

Historically software engineering was part of the IT function, which historically was born out of accounting, a computer literally was someone’s job, before a machine could do it. …

Official yes, common perhaps not. I believe this is why meat from a cow served at a table is beef, because it here it was served to French aristocracy, while cow is the common Engl…

I like the idea of “Spike and Stabilise”. Which means, prototyping in this way, but at the point it is actually delivering value, stabilise. Of course, it’s never as simple as that…

> Interruptions and unforeseen tasks will occur. In a highly interrupted team, sprints don't work. Try lean/Kanban. You've not mentioned retrospectives, which are an important part…

A bad worker blames his tools right?

Alternatively, you can downgrade to a version before the license changed, ie: JDK 8u202 and earlier.

What? The URL hasn’t changed, the content has.

This isn’t a RedHat problem, it’s an IBM problem.

Trademark law requires you to defend your trademark, otherwise you risk loosing it, therefore by law, to ensure you remain owners of the trademark, you MUST pursue any possible inf…

“In keeping with our efforts to sharpen our focus, we have entered into a definitive agreement with Squarespace for the acquisition of customer accounts of the Google Domains regis…

Estimation, especially story points are just a tool to help you communicate and talk about the size of work. Most of the time it’s likely to average just under a 5, so you round up…

The beatings will continue until morale improves

"perfection is the enemy of progress"

Government money would risk making them dependent on it, which would reduce their ability to be self sustainable and independent, which risks becoming political. Best avoided if po…

Why do Python libraries have such unusual names?